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Sundance Kids

Submitted by Chris on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 12:46pm
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2012 has definitely started off with a frenzy of activity as the seconds ticking away to this year's Festival seem to be getting exponentially louder with each passing day.  Happy belated new year, by the way, hope you're all still sticking to your resolutions (here at the office we've all vowed to better fortify our respective tornado shelters this year, and so far so good) as the excitement of another Academy Awards race begins to wash over us.  

Mr. Elmo Rising

Submitted by Chris on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 10:07am
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Well first and foremost, here's wishing all of you out there a Happy Halloween from the entire RiverRun staff.  Full disclosure, I was extremely driven to put a good costume together this year, but was unfortunately thwarted by a bafflingly slow production schedule in the fashion department.  I could have been a real hero.  Seriously, how many of these beauties do you think they could have sold if they were stocked in time for Halloween? Click here to see exactly what I'm talking about.

Bumper Crop

Submitted by Chris on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 3:27pm
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Though our hands may be calloused, knuckles swollen and knotted as acorn husks from the bone-wrenching toil of the autumn harvest here at the RiverRun Acres Ranch and Preserve Cannery, though the cartilage in our sorrowful joints may be pounded into so much pulp and apple peel leavings from the methodical furrowing of field-acres by ploughshare, still we endure to bring you the finest in cinematic reverlry during the month of October.

A Tribute

Submitted by Chris on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 12:07pm
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It is with heavy hearts that we at RiverRun must announce the recent passing of Cliff Robertson, an incredible actor and a dear friend of the festival, at age 88.  Sadly Cliff passed away last Saturday, September 10th, and all of us here at the office were quite dispirited at the news but truly grateful for the wonderful memories we have of Mr. Robertson

A Different World

Submitted by Chris on Mon, 08/29/2011 - 1:32pm
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If you weren't one of the lucky folks who got to see our special screening of the fantastic sci-fi/suspense powerhouse Another Earth during RiverRun this spring, we're really excited to see that a/perture cinema has brought the film back to Winston-Salem for a couple of weeks and given it a full theatrical run!  The film is playing now but it won't be around for long, so we highly recommend you get downtown posthaste to check it out while you still can. 

Follow Focus

Submitted by Chris on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 1:50pm
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Well I hope you all were able to dig out the summer duds before heat exhaustion took hold, because this freeloading summer just sort of showed up on the doorstep in all its 90+ degree glory one day in May and I guess is here to stay for the foreseeable future.  No big adjustment really as your freeloading sons and daughters were all coming home soon with school wrapping up, but still, a heads up would have been nice right?  We love summer--heck, we even showed (500) Days of it as our opening night film a few years back--but a few non-atomic days of late spring would have been welc

Where are they now?

Submitted by Chris on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 12:45pm
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We've gotten so many updates from the RiverRun filmmaker classes of 2010 and 2011 that we just had to share all of the outstanding news with you, in keeping with the graduation season. In no particular order:

Eco location

Submitted by Chris on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 10:16am
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I'm sure you all noticed and took advantage of the Primo hydration stations and our handy dandy recycling bins during the festival, but our commitment to conservation and environmentally responsible practices here at RiverRun is much more heavy duty than you probably imagined.  To wit, here's a rundown of just my last few days around the office, or to put it more aptly, fulfilling the Eco Initiative in five easy steps.

Remembered, but not forgotten

Submitted by Chris on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 4:08pm
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Well, the dust is finally starting to settle on this, the 2011 installment of our most righteous and beloved RiverRun International Film Festival.  Ballots have been counted.  Filmmakers and friends have boarded and deboarded their departing flights, left only with fond memories of 80's Proms and fantastic flickering images all.  Banners have been furled (some even re-furled). 

And the winners are...

Submitted by Chris on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 11:45am
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The RiverRun International Film Festival honored its 2011 Jury and Audience Award winners last night at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Prior to the screening of the Festival’s closing night film, Potiche, RiverRun gave 22 awards to outstanding features and shorts.